Re: [OSCOM] are the collaborative licenses approved by OSI?

On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 11:10:44AM +0100, Stéphane Croisier wrote:
> So, briefly speaking we wanted to push (=force) the customer to contribute 
> (in cash or in kind) and to avoid technology free-riders

allow me to quote:
  Steve Weber, 2004, The Success of Open Source, p154:

  The point here is that open source software is not simply a non-rival
  good in the sense that it can tolerate free riding without reducing the
  stork of the good for the contributors. It is actually anti-rival in the
  sense that the system as a whole positively benefits from free riders.
  Some (small) percentage of these free riders will provide something of
  value to the joint producteven if it is just reporting a bug out of
  frustration, requesting a new feature, or complaining about a function
  that could be better implemented. In fact, one wonders if it makes sense
  to use the term free rider here. Regardless the more free riders in this
  setting, the better.

greetings, martin.
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